Researchers have discovered that 'fully detailed' memories are stored in the brain, but people access this information at different speeds and levels of detail, with people accessing memories 'forward' that is recalling older information first.

"The self-administered DNA kits we're designing would make it possible to obtain valuable DNA evidence when there are no other means of doing so." Dr Heather Flowe, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, co-authors this piece for The Conversation

Dr Ferreira, School of Psychology, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the British Academy to pursue her research on 'Shaping overlapping memory representations via retrieval-mediated learning'.